As I read his article, I found myself nodding ... not just as an entrepreneur, but as a unschooling parent.

Because the arguments are the same in both cases.

If you have a job you hate, or a business that you don't really believe in, it's not only worse for your happiness, it's worse for the world. You're just doing it for money (or attention) and not because you care, not because you love it, not because it will make a difference.

Now shift this to education: why do kids go to school? Because they have to. Because it's compulsory, because it's expected, because everyone else does it, because they need to get the degree, because they need to get a job.

But if this is how you approach learning, that's also how you'll approach your job or business. You'll do it because you have to, because you need the money, because everyone else does it.

They do projects not because they're forced to, but because the want to.

Right now, my four unschoolers are each working on a project they chose and they really want to work on: 3D animation, creating a cupcake business, making a music video, and making a newspaper. Not because these will earn them money, or move them towards a degree or a job or better grades. Because they want to. Because it excites them.

This is what you want to teach your kids. Because it's how they'll live their lives into adulthood.

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I have been binge reading zenhabits.net today, and came across the post that led to this blog. We are also a family of unschoolers so I was glad to see you are writing about this (and had no idea you were an unschooling family until reading the post). After reading your blogs I realized our family and your family are very similar, but after reading your post "Overcoming the Social Costs of Being Different," I realize that we are even more alike than I first suspected! ha! (Should I apologize? haha) Our family lives in SLC, and we have 7 kiddos. We are vegan unschoolers on a minimalist/debt free path. Thank you for sharing your life! There are many blogs out there for people with small families, but you are a HUGE inspiration for those of us who look much more like you! :)

I love read your articles! That kinds of projects like 3D animation o music videos are very interesting and i think yours unschoolers will be very proud of their works. I hope they will understand the importance of developing their own passions. If you like similar projects, i can advise this italian website about "Canzoni del 2018" where you can find a lot of music! Have a nice day! ;)

Leo, I just read your old article on teaching kids money skills and just loved this quote. "Teaching kids about money is a controversial thing — no one argues that you should teach them, but the how is a tougher question." I used this quote with your name in a group I am running https://www.facebook.com/groups/453313965029769/Feel free to join and contribute any time.

Unschooling is a version, a subset, of homeschooling -- schooling at home. I also think it's the best version of homeschooling (or learning in general), because it prepares you for life, for being an entrepreneur, for learning anything, for being autonomous.

What makes unschooling different from other homeschooling methods? Often when people homeschool, they just do school at home -- do a curriculum with math, science, reading, history, etc. at home, often with similar teaching methods and books.

But that doesn't take advantage of the freedom of homeschooling! We can do whatever we want, because there are no rules, no one to tell us we're doing it wrong, which means we can get creative as hell.